Ties that bind II: Why environmental and ecological politics, like Siamese twins, are critical to conservation
The ecological approach inherently recognises the complexity of our world and helps us understand it. If we are to understand the complexity of life, whether it be plant, animal, or human animal, we need to understand the complex systems of which they are a part. Leadership is no different. Leadership takes place in a variety of social and biological systems which are interdependent and mutually influencing
How spending long periods watching TV, obesity, diabetes and delinquency lead to early menstruation in girls below 10 years
Early periods may be influenced by socioeconomic backgrounds, high body mass index during childhood, low activity levels and electronic screen time.
Conservationists resort to beekeeping to combat threat of logging along Kenyan coast
Mangroves are threatened by illegal logging, climate change and rising seas, pollution and urban development. According to a Kenya environment ministry report in 2018, about 40% of mangroves along the Indian Ocean coast are degraded.
For Gambian MPs, repealing female genital mutilation ban guarantees them re-election
Rights advocates also worry Gambia’s bill could inspire similar legislation in other African countries with FGM bans. Kenya’s high court rejected a petition to reverse its ban in 2021. Gambia’s President Adama Barrow, whose election in 2016 ended more than two decades of oppressive rule under Jammeh, said his government would continue enforcing the ban while the bill works its way through parliament.
Out of Zimbabwe: How African grandmothers mental health therapy is being embraced by the world
Older people are at the centre of a homegrown form of mental health therapy in Zimbabwe that is now being adopted in places like the United States. The approach involves setting up benches in quiet, discreet corners of community clinics and in some churches, poor neighbourhoods and at a university. An older woman with basic training in problem-solving therapy patiently sits there, ready to listen and engage in a one-on-one conversation.
How past abuse-ridden foreign interventions feed fears in Haiti that Kenyan forces are US pawns
Fears of a new occupation are still strong among Haitians, many of whom hold the US responsible for the current chaos. The US supported Henry and is often perceived as having propped up a corrupt elite with links to gangs they sometimes trained, and to have done little to stop the massive smuggling of weapons and munitions into Haiti.
Gang violence in Haiti drops as Kenyan police start street patrols but fears of trouble linger
Several hundred Kenyan police officers landed in Port-au-Prince on June 25, four months after gangs joined forces in a coalition called Viv Ansanm (Live Together) on February 29, starting a rebellion that plunged the country into violent chaos and forcing acting prime minister Ariel Henry to flee, then resign.
Black and heartbroken: When Crudup wrote the song that became Elvis’ first rock’n’roll hit, he’d actually invented a new genre but he died poor
When Crudup and four of his children arrived in New York, they learned the deal was off, according to the book Between Midnight and Day written by Crudup’s final manager, Dick Waterman. They were told a settlement would cost the company more money than a potential lawsuit would yield. And suing meant “going after an old white widow who lives in Florida,” Waterman wrote. “We wouldn’t have a chance.” “It just ain’t meant to be,” Crudup told Waterman. “Naked I come into this world and naked I shall leave it.”
How a poor father wowed by $40,000 payout worked out a plan that propelled daughters Venus and Serena world’s greatest tennis players
On one occasion when he refused to leave the practice court with his daughters, they broke his nose, jaw and fingers, and knocked out several of his teeth. Richard got home with his daughters, opened his diary, and wrote: “After today, history will remember the ‘toothless’ man as a monument of courage.”
Kenya mourns a giant whose death coincides with a youth revolution with bearing on African politics
As Kamukunji MP, Maina Wanjigi helped small-scale and petty traders start the Gikomba Market and the Shauri Moyo craftspeople yards that have evolved into key subsectors of the national economy as they have been replicated in other major towns.
